Overcast
4+

Award-winning podcast player

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Description

A powerful yet simple podcast player, with Smart Speed, Voice Boost, and Smart Playlists to help you listen to more podcasts in more places, try new shows, and completely control your experience.

Overcast is a modern, fully featured audio podcast player with many useful features in a simple, intuitive interface:

- Download podcasts for playing anytime, even when offline.- Search and browse for new podcasts, plus get recommendations from Twitter.- Create custom Playlists with smart filters and per-podcast priorities, and rearrange the list whenever you want.- Receive optional push notifications when new episodes arrive.- Subscribe to a podcast, or just add an episode: try new shows without committing.- Download podcasts over cellular, set a sleep timer, or use Voice Boost to enhance and normalize speech volume.- Adjust playback speed, and use Smart Speed to shrink silences and pick up extra speed without distorting the conversation.- 3D Touch support- Rich notifications- Apple Watch app with standalone podcast playback- CarPlay support

Overcast is ad-supported. If you choose to purchase Overcast Premium to remove ads, payment will be charged to your iTunes account, and your account will be charged for renewal 24 hours prior to the end of the current period. Auto-renewal may be turned off at any time by going to your settings in the iTunes Store after purchase. Current price for Overcast Premium is $9.99 USD per year, and may vary from country to country.

Overcast's privacy policy: https://overcast.fm/privacy

What’s New

Version History

5.0.4

Nov 14, 2018

- Support for new iPad screen sizes- Changed all Infograph complications on Apple Watch to the dark icon- Fixed a bug that could cause crashing in the background

5.0.3

Oct 15, 2018

Dramatically improves the reliability of Watch transfers.

5.0.2

Sep 27, 2018

- New complications for Apple Watch Infograph faces- New Siri Shortcuts for sleep timer, sharing links- More control over Auto-Sync to Watch- Haptics can now be reduced in Nitpicky Details- Sleep timer now offers a one-tap preset for the previous interval- Fixed bugs and crashes

4.2.2

Jun 14, 2018

Minor bug fixes.

4.2.1

Apr 30, 2018

Fixes a crash on startup for some customers with a lot of podcasts.

4.2

Apr 27, 2018

- Can now change or remove emails and passwords- Images in show notes no longer auto-load to prevent ad tracking- Adjusted Smart Resume timing in response to customer feedback- Fixed slowdowns with large images- Minor fixes

4.1

Mar 13, 2018

- New option to auto-delete episodes 24 hours after completion- Password-protected podcasts are now supported (in the Add URL screen)- New Smart Resume feature: Jumps back by up to a few seconds after having been paused to help remind you of the conversation, and slightly adjusts seeks to fall between spoken words when possible. (Option in Nitpicky Details)- Fixed bugs related to glitchy audio, stalled playback, failed downloads, and disappearing play controls- Extremely large playlists now only show the most/least-recent 500 episodes to improve app performance for users with very high subscription counts- Rotation support is now iPad-only; iPhone rotation has proven too costly to maintain for its extremely low usage. My apologies to the few people who did use it.

4.0.4

Feb 12, 2018

Fixed a bug that could lose a few seconds or minutes of playback progress when resuming the current episode.

4.0.3

Jan 29, 2018

Minor audio fixes.

4.0.2

Jan 11, 2018

Minor fixes

4.0.1

Nov 22, 2017

- New black theme option, in addition to the classic dark theme- Can now choose either font with any theme- Sleep timer "End of Episode" option- Minor fixes and improvements

3.0.4

3.0.3

- Minor bug fixes- The triumphant return of swipe-to-delete (in addition to the new UI)

Nov 14, 2018

Version 5.0.4

- Support for new iPad screen sizes- Changed all Infograph complications on Apple Watch to the dark icon- Fixed a bug that could cause crashing in the background

Ratings and Reviews

4.7 out of 5

12.3K Ratings

12.3K Ratings

Editors’ Notes

Listen to your favorite podcasts

Editors’ Notes

Listen to your favorite podcasts

BoozyAlpaca
,05/21/2018

Finally Organized!

For the past too many years, I’ve been using whatever the native setup for podcasts was on my iPhone (most recently, the Podcasts app). I didn’t hate it but there were always things that I definitely didn’t like. My biggest frustration with Apple’s native app was the lack of personalization and organization. I’m not a consistent podcast listener. Instead, when I want something to listen to that isn’t music, I download a bunch of episodes that sound interesting and listen to them while traveling or cleaning or whatever otherwise monotonous or boring thing I’m doing.

I love Overcast because it allows a much greater degree of customization, and now I have the podcasts that I am a fan of separated into appropriately labeled playlists (my politics ones in a politics folder, my news ones in a news folder, etc). The amount of peace this gives me is great, and it’s easy to create a new playlist called something like “July Road Trip” and then pick out the topics I feel like listening to from their respective playlists (ie politics, economics, news, or comedy), and download some episodes that sound good.

I’ve tried a couple other podcast apps over the past two months or so, and I think Overcast is the one I want to commit to. I’d say we’re engaged and in the lead-up to the wedding but if somehow something much better comes along... I’ll have to bail before the wedding. But given my experience using it so far, I think that’s very, very unlikely.

BoozyAlpaca
,05/21/2018

Finally Organized!

For the past too many years, I’ve been using whatever the native setup for podcasts was on my iPhone (most recently, the Podcasts app). I didn’t hate it but there were always things that I definitely didn’t like. My biggest frustration with Apple’s native app was the lack of personalization and organization. I’m not a consistent podcast listener. Instead, when I want something to listen to that isn’t music, I download a bunch of episodes that sound interesting and listen to them while traveling or cleaning or whatever otherwise monotonous or boring thing I’m doing.

I love Overcast because it allows a much greater degree of customization, and now I have the podcasts that I am a fan of separated into appropriately labeled playlists (my politics ones in a politics folder, my news ones in a news folder, etc). The amount of peace this gives me is great, and it’s easy to create a new playlist called something like “July Road Trip” and then pick out the topics I feel like listening to from their respective playlists (ie politics, economics, news, or comedy), and download some episodes that sound good.

I’ve tried a couple other podcast apps over the past two months or so, and I think Overcast is the one I want to commit to. I’d say we’re engaged and in the lead-up to the wedding but if somehow something much better comes along... I’ll have to bail before the wedding. But given my experience using it so far, I think that’s very, very unlikely.

Vegasrunaway
,11/09/2017

Best one yet...

Out of all the podcast players I’ve tried (there have been a lot!), this one is the most user friendly. I am an avid podcast listener and am subscribed to at least 50. Overcast accommodates all of them, even if the memory on my phone doesn’t! There are only a few complaints about Overcast’s functionality: the title page of each podcast may have a description but the app doesn’t allow you to see the entire text. It does allow you to read the details of each episode, unlike some of the others I’ve tried. Another non-feature that drives me nuts is if you back out of the screen your podcast is playing, you can’t go back to that podcast; instead you have to scroll through them all again, e.g., if I am listening to Casefile and want to look at descriptions of other podcasts, I can’t just go back to the Casefile podcast episode list. I have to return to the top and scroll back down the list to find Casefile again. At least they are in alphabetical order, not the order I added the podcast. I have to admit, that’s the most annoying non-feature I’ve discovered so far. Other than that, the sound is great, you can build a playlist and the forward/backward buttons are adjustable. If Overcast could fix these two little gripes I have, it could take over the podcast world!! *deep, maniacal laugh*. Seriously, if you’re looking for a convenient podcast player, this is it. Happy listening.

Vegasrunaway
,11/09/2017

Best one yet...

Out of all the podcast players I’ve tried (there have been a lot!), this one is the most user friendly. I am an avid podcast listener and am subscribed to at least 50. Overcast accommodates all of them, even if the memory on my phone doesn’t! There are only a few complaints about Overcast’s functionality: the title page of each podcast may have a description but the app doesn’t allow you to see the entire text. It does allow you to read the details of each episode, unlike some of the others I’ve tried. Another non-feature that drives me nuts is if you back out of the screen your podcast is playing, you can’t go back to that podcast; instead you have to scroll through them all again, e.g., if I am listening to Casefile and want to look at descriptions of other podcasts, I can’t just go back to the Casefile podcast episode list. I have to return to the top and scroll back down the list to find Casefile again. At least they are in alphabetical order, not the order I added the podcast. I have to admit, that’s the most annoying non-feature I’ve discovered so far. Other than that, the sound is great, you can build a playlist and the forward/backward buttons are adjustable. If Overcast could fix these two little gripes I have, it could take over the podcast world!! *deep, maniacal laugh*. Seriously, if you’re looking for a convenient podcast player, this is it. Happy listening.